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Friday June 16, 2006
Federally Funded National Tourism Agency Encouraging US Homosexuals to “Wed” in Canada
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By Hilary White and John Henry Westen
OTTAWA, June 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Canada’s federal tourism agency has decided to market Canada to US homosexuals as an ideal place to come to “tie the knot.”
The Canadian Tourism Commission, a Vancouver-based federal Crown corporation, has already run a glossy ad campaign in Passport, a popular US travel magazine that specializes in directing gay clients to posh Club Med style resorts and cruises.
A Commission spokesman told CanWest News Service that their goal was not political. “This is a very important niche,” said Yolaine Dupont. “We don't get into the politics.”
Shortly after the legislation passed in 2005, Canada’s new same-sex "marriage" law was being used internationally to push the homosexual political agenda. Two British women, Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger came to Canada and went home immediately to file a lawsuit in the U.K. High Court alleging that their rights were being violated under the European Convention on Human Rights.
In a similar case the same year, six homosexual Israelis also used the Canadian law to attempt to force the Israeli government to recognize their unions as legitimate marriages. Israel does not acknowledge homosexual unions under current law.
Despite the Tourism Commission’s disclaimer, the political nature of their decision and the fact it is occurring under the Conservative Government which has announced it will revisit the debate over same-sex "marriage" was not lost on Liberals.
In an exchange in the House of Commons yesterday, Quebec Liberal MP Marlene Jennings commented "today we have the rare opportunity to congratulate the Conservative government. Let us savour it. The government is ending its rhetoric and finally embracing the status quo on same sex marriage in Canada. The government and the Canadian Tourism Commission have begun an advertising campaign targeted at our American neighbours, celebrating Canada as a vacation destination for same sex couples."
Jennings asked, "May we now take it for granted that the Prime Minister has no intention of reopening in the House the issue of same sex marriage?"
Responding for the Conservatives, Colin Carrie, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry, attempted to distance the Government from the tourism move. "As the member knows, the Canadian Tourism Commission is a crown corporation that operates at arm's length from the federal government. It is led by its own board of directors."
Jennings didn't buy the line. "We all know that the government gives the directive of where to go to the independent commissions."
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